HIV/AIDS Vaccines : How long must humanity wait?

OVER FORTY MILLION PEOPLE ARE INFECTED with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the causative agent of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), and more than 95% of these infected individuals are in the developing...

Extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) in Omani Children Study of prevalence, risk factors and clinical outcomes at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Sultanate of Oman

Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem worldwide, which imposes difficulties in the selection of appropriate empirical antimicrobial therapy. Tis study evaluated extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) isolates in...

Nasopharyngeal Salivary Gland Anlage Tumour A rare cause of neonatal respiratory distress

A salivary gland anlage tumour (SGAT) is a very rare type of benign tumour that usually presents in early infancy with respiratory distress which is exacerbated upon feeding. We report a full-term male neonate who was...

8th Advanced Medicine Symposium

Improving Outcomes in Advanced Lung Cancer Maintenance therapy in non-small-cell lung carcinoma

Systemic chemotherapy has remained the traditional treatment for metastatic non-small-cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC), enhancing survival rate at 1 year to 29%. Te median survival had plateaued at around 10 months until ea...